Synopses & Reviews
Here, in a long-awaited collection, are the most important writings from a lifetime of work by one of the most influential Jewish thinkers in American life over the last half-century. Arnold Wolf s combination of religious traditionalism with political activism has placed him at the leading edge of Reform Judaism, whether as the navy s only Jewish chaplain in the Far East, among the marchers at Selma, as Hillel director at Yale University, or in his Chicago-area congregations. For decades, writes Eugene Borowitz in his Foreword, Arnold Jacob Wolf has been the finest English stylist in the American rabbinate. In the diverse fields that have engaged him, he has written with unique clarity, penetration, belief, and sophistication. His writing, as the Mindrash says of Revelation, smashes against the ear.' Through the years Rabbi Wolf has used this gift to attempt to make God manifest in life, experimenting with prayer and ceremony long before spirituality became a generation s rallying cry. These selections from a wide range of his writings display his boldness of faith, his uncommon respect for students and congregants, and his rare qualities of humanity.
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The most important writings from a lifetime of work by one of the most influential Jewish thinkers in American life over the last half-century. The finest English stylist in the American rabbinate. says Eugene Borowitz. These selections display Rabbi Wolf's boldness of faith, his uncommon respect for students and congregants, and his rare qualities of humanity.
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In this persuasive reappraisal of Truman's 1948 victory, Harold Gullan argues that it was neither the greatest upset in American political history nor merely a successful extension of the coalition built by Franklin Roosevelt. Despite the near unanimous opinion of polls, pundits, and publications favoring Thomas E. Dewey, a win by Dewey would have been the authentic upset. Mr. Gullan shows why, in retrospect, the results of 1948 make it--along with 1932 and 1968--one of the three most important elections in the twentieth century. A lucid, enlightening historical survey, as well as a nostalgic look at a bygone era. --Kirkus Reviews